With a ho-hum answer to a basic question, Fred Maas left me awestruck.​Someone in the audience at the July 15 Spirit of the Barrio luncheon asked about parking for the downtown stadium/convention center annex proposed by Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos. After all, the ballot initiative, officially Measure C, mentions only 1,300 spaces, compared with the 19,000 at Qualcomm Stadium.

​The San Diego County Road Repair, Transit, Traffic Relief, Safety and Water Quality Measure would raise an estimated $18 billion over 40 years to improve freeways, fund municipal road repairs and build a trolley line between San Ysidro and Kearny Mesa, among other things.